Armed Forces Community Covenant

Jim Murphy: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  what role Ministers in his Department have in determining the focus and outcomes of community covenant schemes;
	(2)  how many community covenant schemes have measures within them which aim to tackle or prevent discrimination against the service community.

Andrew Robathan: holding answer 19 June 2012
	I am encouraged by the success of the Armed Forces Community Covenant scheme. To date more than 50 Community Covenants have been signed and more than 50 are pending.
	Community Covenants are voluntary statements of mutual support between the civilian community and its local armed forces community, in the form of a written pledge. Usually these local partnerships are made between the armed forces in an area and the local authority, joined by local business, organisations, charities and other public bodies as appropriate.
	The Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Local Government Association hosted a successful Community Covenant Conference on 1 November 2011 for local authorities in England, which was attended by 150 delegates including representatives from the armed forces community and voluntary and charitable sector. This was an opportunity to share best practice and encourage further local authorities to participate in the scheme. The strong interest from delegates demonstrated the importance that local authorities are placing on this work. Similar events are expected to be held in Wales and Scotland later this year.
	Guidance is provided on the MOD website about the form that a Community Covenant might take. However, the contents of a particular Community Covenant are entirely a matter for the parties concerned.

Armed Forces: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Mary Glindon: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department is taking to monitor the incidences of post-traumatic stress disorder amongst serving and former soldiers.

Andrew Robathan: I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Luton North (Kelvin Hopkins) on 12 June 2012, Official Report, column 448W.
	The Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) publishes the “UK Armed Forces Mental Health Report” four times a year, which includes the numbers of patients attending a Ministry of Defence Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH) who were initially assessed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The latest report, for the period 1 October to 31 December 2011, was published on 3 April 2012, and can be found on the DASA website,
	www.dasa.mod.uk
	under “Other Publications” and “Health/Medical Statistics”.
	Ex-Service personnel who require treatment for PTSD will receive it through their local NHS provider, and no central record is maintained of the numbers diagnosed with the condition. However, we continue to work closely with the Department of Health to improve the whole range of mental health care available to ex-service personnel.

Defence: Procurement

Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  pursuant to his oral statement of 14 May 2012, Official Report, columns 261-64, what rate of inflation was assumed in his Department's assessment of a 1 per cent annual increase from 2015 to the equipment and equipment support budget;
	(2)  what assessment he has made of the rate of inflation in the defence sector;
	(3)  what rate of inflation was used as a basis for the conclusions of PR12.

Philip Hammond: The 1% real annual uplift in equipment and equipment support spend was first announced by the former Secretary of State for Defence on 18 July 2012. It referred to an agreement that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) had reached with the HM Treasury on how much the Department could assume was available for planning purposes.
	The inflation figure underpinning that agreement, and the planning assumption in Planning Round 12, was based on the GDP deflator forecast produced by the Office of Budgetary Responsibility. At the beginning of Planning Round 12 this was 2.5% for financial year (FY) 2012-13, and 2.7% for subsequent years.
	Defence inflation stood at 4.2% in FY 2010-11, the latest year for which figures are available. The annual average was 3.8% over the period from FY 2005-06 to FY 2010-11.
	The difference between defence inflation (the rate of cost growth of commodities purchased by the MOD) and the GDP deflator is already accounted for in our planning processes.

Diamond Jubilee 2012: Medals

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Territorial Army (a) officers and (b) other ranks have received the Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Andrew Robathan: The number of Territorial Army officers and other ranks who have been issued with the Queens' Diamond Jubilee Medal to date is 9,269. Of those, 2,145 were officers and 7,124 were other ranks.

Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft

Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many pilots will be involved in the sea trials of the F35b aircraft.

Peter Luff: We anticipate that initially a total of three or four UK test pilots will be involved in the first sea trials of the F35B aircraft with additional operational pilots becoming involved as the programme progresses. Final decisions will be taken nearer the time.

War Memorials

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  which (a) Ministers in his Department, (b) civil servants in his Department and (c) members of the armed forces will attend the unveiling of the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park on 28 June 2012;
	(2)  which (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants will be attending the unveiling of the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park on 28 June 2012.

Andrew Robathan: There is no specific allocation of tickets for Ministry of Defence officials as this is a Bomber Command Association event.
	The Secretary of State for Defence, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), the Minister for International Security Strategy and the Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans have been invited and will attend the unveiling of the Memorial.
	Approximately 200 Royal Air Force personnel will be directly supporting the event in a number of different roles.
	The additional number of members of the Armed Forces and civil servants who have been allocated tickets by the Bomber Command Association is not available, as this information is not held centrally by the Ministry of Defence.

Housing: Construction

Jack Dromey: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the quarterly average number of homes built since May 2010 is in each (a) region and (b) local authority area; and what recent assessment his Department has made of the number of homes which need to be built in each quarter in order to meet housing needs in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area.

Grant Shapps: I have placed in the Library of the House, a table showing the number new build homes completed for each local authority district area in each quarter of this period.
	Quarterly figures by Government region are available on the Department's website in Live Table 217 at the following link:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/housebuilding/livetables/
	The Department does not hold data on housing need by Government region or local authority area, as this is a matter for individual local authorities.

Housing: Construction

Jack Dromey: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of new dwellings have been built in areas at risk of flooding in each (a) region and (b) local authority area since May 2010.

Andrew Stunell: The information is collated by calendar year.
	Information on the proportion of new dwellings built in areas of risk of flooding in each year from 1989 can be found in the Department's Live Tables at:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningbuilding/planningstatistics/livetables/landusechange/
	The National Planning Policy Framework contains strong planning policy on avoiding and managing risks from flooding. The framework makes clear that local plans, which are the keystone of the planning system, should apply a sequential, risk-based approach to the location of development to avoid where possible flood risk to people and property and manage any residual risk.

Housing: Demolition

Sheryll Murray: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes were demolished under the housing market renewal pathfinder scheme, in each pathfinder area in each year, prior to its termination.

Oliver Colvile: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the Government's targets were for demolition of homes under the housing market renewal pathfinder scheme, prior to its termination, in each pathfinder area. [R]

Grant Shapps: The last Administration's Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder programme created large-scale Whitehall targets for demolition and clearance across the midlands and the north of England. The centrally driven schemes were often resented by local communities and created as many problems as they solved. This top-down approach has not worked, frequently resulting in blighted areas where large scale demolition and clearance projects have been stopped in their tracks, leaving some families isolated in abandoned streets.
	There was widespread public. controversy over an obsession with demolition over refurbishment, the lack of transparency of the pathfinder quangos, large profits by developers, the demolition of our nation's Victorian heritage and perverse incentives being given to run down neighbourhoods.
	The designation of areas for demolition effectively increased deprivation in those areas; many social landlords prepared the ground by “voiding” and boarding up properties. In turn, this undermined the housing market as mortgage lenders were unwilling to lend in such areas. Areas were effectively managed into decline—to make the notional benefits of wholesale demolition more attractive, ensuring a larger windfall gain for the state.
	As the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Select Committee warned in 2005:
	“Concerns have been expressed about the scale of demolitions envisaged and the impact on vulnerable communities. Some demolition is required but there is a risk that this initiative will be seen as a major demolition programme, which will repeat the mistakes of previous clearance programmes that destroyed the heritage of areas and failed to replace it with neighbourhoods of lasting value” (ODPM Select Committee, Empty Homes and Low-demand Pathfinders, HC 295-1, April 2005).
	Top-down targets were created by the Whitehall programme. Demolition output targets were demanded of Pathfinder partnerships in their funding agreements with the Department for Communities and Local Government. The contracts explicitly stated that “grant is payable...on condition that the Pathfinder achieves the Programme Targets specified for that year” and the Department would suspend, withhold, reduce or withdraw grants at any time if the targets were not met or “satisfactory progress with the implementation” was not made (deposited papers from Official Report, 6 October 2008, column 340W).
	The National Audit Office review of the programme in November 2007 observed that there had been 10,242 properties demolished compared to 1,078 new builds, and there were plans for a total of 57,100 properties to be demolished (NAO, ‘Department for Communities and Local Government: Housing Market Renewal’, HC 20, 2007-2008, pp. 7, 19). It added:
	“The demolition element of the programme has been controversial and can carry particular value for money risks where the acquisition of old properties, clearance of sites and development of new homes is more expensive than the refurbishment of existing properties”. (p.6)
	The Audit Commission has subsequently published a review of the programme that projected there would be 30,987 demolitions from 2002 to 2010-11 (Audit Commission, ‘Housing market renewal’, March 2011, p.9). Full figures by type can be found in the Audit Commission report, while figures on individual areas are available at:
	http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/housing/marketrenewal pathfinders/strategicreviews/Pages/Strategicreviewofprogress 2010.aspx
	This Government has cancelled the Pathfinder programme and is instead actively seeking to get empty homes back into productive use. Unlike the Pathfinder programme, we are not going to throw massive central taxpayer subsidies at razing properties where it would be more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable to improve and refurbish.

Low Associates

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether his Department has received any representations from Low Associates since May 2010.

Bob Neill: This information is not held centrally and records could be searched only at disproportionate cost. However, no use has been made of their services since May 2010.
	Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on the Department of Communities and Local Government website at this URL:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/transparencyin government/ministerialdata/
	Details of permanent secretaries' meetings with external organisations are also available and published here:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/transparencyin government/staffdata/permanentsecretarydata/

Right to Buy: Bexley

David Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many right to buy sales were completed in the London borough of Bexley in each of the last three years.

Grant Shapps: Data on Right to Buy sales of local authority stock are published in Live Table 648 on the Department's website at:
	http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/socialhousingsales/livetables/

Common Fisheries Policy

Zac Goldsmith: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what agreements were reached at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting on 12 June 2012 on reform of the Common Fisheries Policy and UK control over the 12 nautical mile territorial waters.

Richard Benyon: On 12/13 June I attended the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Luxembourg to discuss the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. We secured agreement to key planks of the reform that the UK is seeking, in the form of a 'General Approach'. This included provisions setting out a regionalised process to allow member states to work together on the measures appropriate to their fisheries, rather than the current centralised "one size fits all" approach.
	On discards we successfully made the case for measures to eliminate discards, agreeing a ban on discards in principle, with provisional timelines. The text also includes a clear legal commitment, and deadlines, to achieve Maximum Sustainable Yield, in line with our international commitments.
	The existing arrangements in the 12 mile zone involve a derogation from the otherwise free access allowed by the CFP. The General Approach agreed in Luxembourg maintains the current derogation setting out member state control over fishery activities in waters from 0 to 12 nautical miles.

Food and Drinks

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the monetary value was of food and drink (a) produced and (b) imported to the UK in each year for which figures are available.

James Paice: The monetary value of UK food production is measured by the gross value added (GVA) of businesses in the agri-food sector covering agriculture, manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing and non-residential catering.
	
		
			 £ billion 
			  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 
			 GVA from UK food production(1) 61.0 64.9 64.8 65.8 68.6 70.9 76.6 
			 Imports of food, feed and drink 17.1 17.2 16.8 18.3 19.1 20,9 21.9 
			 Exports of food, feed and drink 9.2 8.9 8.7 8.5 8.9 9.9 9.7 
		
	
	
		
			  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 (2) 
			 GVA from UK food production(1) 74.2 77.8 80.2 84.5 85.4 88.8 n/a 
			 Imports of food, feed and drink 23.4 24.8 26.7 31.6 32.5 33.7 36.8 
			 Exports of food, feed and drink 9.9 10.5 11.4 13.2 14.0 15.8 18.2 
			 (1 )Gross value added from agriculture, food and drink manufacturing, food and drink retailing, food and drink wholesaling and non-residential catering. (2 )2011 data is subject to amendments. Sources: 1. Gross value added from agriculture is from Agriculture in The United Kingdom, DEFRA. 2. Gross value added from food and drink manufacturing, food and drink retailing, food and drink wholesaling and non-residential catering is from the Annual Business Survey, ONS. 3. Values of imports and exports are prepared by DEFRA using Overseas Trade Statistics from HMRC.

Livestock: Antibiotics

Zac Goldsmith: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make it her policy to prohibit the advertising of prescription-only antibiotics directly to farmers.

James Paice: The Government consulted on a proposal to prohibit advertising of anti-microbial veterinary medicines to farmers during the summer of 2010, as part of the review process of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations.
	The farming community and the agricultural press opposed a ban; they argued that this proposal would lead to a loss of revenue and consequent reduction in the dissemination of valuable information to the farming industry. Farmers and farming organisations, individual veterinary surgeons and the pharmaceutical industry considered that the change would have a negative effect on farmers' ability to maintain their knowledge and awareness of animal health and welfare issues. The British Veterinary Association and the Soil Association supported the ban.
	Ministers considered the arguments from both sides and decided that it was not appropriate to prohibit advertising of antimicrobial veterinary medicines to farmers since a ban would be unlikely to have a direct impact on antimicrobial resistance.

Pheasants

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funding her Department has (a) incurred for and (b) allocated to research into the incidence of buzzards preying on young pheasants and how best to discourage birds that may cause damage to legitimate businesses.

Richard Benyon: DEFRA funded the Food and Environment Research Agency to undertake a desk study in January 2012 entitled "Approaches to mitigating bird of prey conflicts with pheasants at release pens, outdoor poultry and lambs" at a total cost of £24,694. The report can be found on the DEFRA website.
	DEFRA has made provision for up to £125,000 to be available in each of the current and following two financial years for additional research to look at the relationship between raptors (including buzzards), livestock, wildlife and game birds. DEFRA will collaborate with all the organisations that have an interest in this issue to identify and develop any future research proposals.

Sharks: Conservation

Graham Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what consideration she has given to banning shark fin imports.

Richard Benyon: The UK Government is aware of the conservation implications of the international trade in shark fins and the need for more stringent controls to ensure any such trade is rooted in sustainable fishing practices. While the UK has banned shark finning (removal and retention of shark fins at sea, but discarding the carcass), the Government does not oppose fisheries for species where scientific advice indicates that they can be sustainably exploited. However, we do promote the full utilisation of the shark.
	The UK cannot unilaterally take action to ban shark fin imports without contravening EU trade agreements and World Trade Organisation (WTO) obligations.
	However, we are not complacent. We believe the market for shark fin products in the UK is on the decrease and we will continue to support campaigns like 'Bite-Back' that raise public awareness and change consumer and retailer behaviour.
	We will also continue to work closely with the Shark Trust to ensure sharks are properly managed and conserved globally. We consider that the most effective means of protecting sharks is by continuing to press for a range of international conservation and management measures within the appropriate bodies. This includes pushing for changes within the EU and internationally to ensure all sharks are landed with their 'fins naturally attached' (thus removing the possibility of shark finning occurring) and supporting scientifically robust proposals for regulating the international trade in shark products through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme

Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport by what methods he publicised the changes to the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme in advance of their coming into effect on 1 April 2011.

John Penrose: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) made a series of announcements from October 2010 to March 2011 about the future of the (listed Places of Worship (LPW) Grant Scheme. Firstly, as part of the October 2010 spending review, we announced that the scheme would continue in the following spending period with a fixed annual budget of £12 million. This formed part of a written ministerial statement made in Parliament by the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt), on 21 October 2010 and a news release on the DCMS website.
	In January 2011, DCMS announced on its website and the LPW Grant Scheme's website that the terms and operation of the scheme would be comprehensively reviewed, and that the last date for receipt of applications under the current arrangements would be 31 March 2011. This notice was also circulated to a range of denominational and heritage organisations who were asked to provide views on the design of the scheme.
	In March 2011, DCMS announced the detail of the changes to be made to the LPW Grant Scheme, to come into effect on 1 April 2011 These announcements were posted on the DCMS and LPW Grant Scheme websites and circulated to the denominational and heritage contacts. I also wrote to Ministers in the devolved Administrations to set out the changes on 7 April 2011.
	In addition to these announcements we also asked the churches to use their contacts and communication channels to inform people about the changes and explain their implications.
	The combined impact of all these measures was a very significant increase in the number and size of claims under the scheme before the changes took effect.

Asylum

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many failed Sudanese asylum seekers have been requested to attend interviews with Sudanese and South Sudanese embassy officials for the purposes of obtaining documentation or confirming nationality in the years (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12; and what information her Department holds on how many of those requested to attend have complied with that request.

Damian Green: According to provisional data held by the UK Border Agency, 46 individuals with no legal basis to remain in the United Kingdom were requested to attend interviews with Sudanese embassy officials in 2010-11 and 111 individuals in 2011-12. This data does not record whether those individuals are failed asylum seekers, is not subject to statistical quality assurance and is subject to change. There is no centrally held data to indicate whether those individuals subsequently complied with that request and that information could be produced only at a disproportionate cost. There have been no requests to attend interviews at the South Sudanese embassy.

British Nationality: Assessments

Richard Fuller: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  what recent assessment she has made of the topics covered by the British Citizenship Test; and what plans she has to extend the number of topics covered by the test;
	(2)  what plans she has to ensure that questions and answers in the British Citizenship Test are regularly reviewed to ensure their accuracy;
	(3)  what proportion of questions used in the British Citizenship Test are based on data that is 10 or more years old;
	(4)  how many questions used in the British Citizenship Test have correct answers that are no longer factually correct; and when she plans to update the test to ensure that all answers deemed correct are factually correct.

Damian Green: The Home Office is currently reviewing the content of the Life in the UK test with the aim of introducing new questions, including questions on British history, in autumn 2012.
	All questions asked in the current test are factually correct. Questions are based on the Life in the UK handbook, which includes information from the 2001 census. Any questions based on information which is no longer accurate are removed from the question bank.
	A new revised edition of the handbook will be published before the introduction of the new test.

Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships

Charlotte Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on sport-based interventions to tackle crime and social disorder in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.

James Brokenshire: The Home Office has provided funding to a number of voluntary organisations that use sport-based interventions to tackle crime and social disorder through: the Positive Futures programme; the Communities Against Gangs, Guns and Knives (CAGGK) fund; the Community Fund; and the Community Action Against Crime: Innovation Fund (CAACIF).
	Details of the funding provided are shown in the table. However, it is difficult to quantify exactly how much individual organisations have spent on sport-based activities as many recipients also engage in other diversionary activities such as music and art, as well as running preventative programmes such as mentoring.
	Details are shown in the following table.
	
		
			 £ 
			 Grant Stream 2010-11 2011-12 
			 Positive Futures 5,063,000 5,063,000 
			 CAGGK {fund runs from April 2011 to March 2013) 0 232,771 
			 Community Fund (provided funding over two years from 2009-2010 and 2010-2011) 214,086 0 
			 CAACIF (launched in September 2011) 0 517,429

Fraud

Stephen Barclay: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2012, Official Report, column 63W, on fraud, if she will add to the diagram placed in the Library to show the involvement of (a) the Counter Fraud Taskforce, (b) the National Fraud Agency, (c) Action Fraud, (d) the Serious Fraud Office, (e) the Serious Organised Crime Agency, (f) the Crown Prosecution Service, (g) any relevant Government Department, (h) any relevant non-departmental public body and (i) any other relevant body or strategy.

James Brokenshire: The Fraud, Error and Debt Taskforce is previously known as the Counter Fraud Taskforce.
	The information requested has been placed in the House Library.

Offences Against Children: British Nationals Abroad

Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures are in place to ensure that the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre continues to provide a centralised operational and tactical lead for the policing of offences of sexual abuse of children by British sex offenders abroad after it becomes part of the National Crime Agency in 2013.

Lynne Featherstone: The National Crime Agency (NCA) will be a UK-wide crime-fighting agency, which will have a highly visible, national profile committed to protecting the public. It will lead the UK's fight against serious and organised crime.
	Subject to the passage of the Bill, the National Crime Agency will be established by the end of 2013, at the centre of the reformed law enforcement landscape. It will build on the strengths of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).
	The National Crime Agency will therefore play a vital role in countering the threat to children and ensuring they are better protected. As well as building on CEOP's existing role as the national centre dedicated to working with others to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse, the NCA will also be subject to a new statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children across all its functions and activities.
	To support this work, the NCA will have four distinct operational Commands, each led by a senior experienced individual, which will set the priorities for the threats it is responsible for. CEOP will be one of these four Commands, reflecting the importance of child protection within the agency's work.

Offences Against Children: British Nationals Abroad

Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions her Department has had on the merits of setting up an operational police unit responsible for disrupting crimes of child sexual abuse by British sex offenders abroad and returning these offenders to the UK.

Lynne Featherstone: The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has responsibility for operational activity to disrupt offences of child sexual abuse and for returning offenders to the UK.
	Subject to the passage of the Bill, the National Crime Agency (NCA) will be established by the end of 2013. It will build on the strengths of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).
	There will be many areas where the NCA will help to protect children through the effective use of its specialist resources, including the ability for information on various criminal activities to be compared, in order to identify links and networks and provide for a wider range of responses to be considered. It will also improve the response at our borders, which will help to disrupt the activities of child sex offenders who travel from/into the UK, support efforts to identify, locate and safely recover abducted children, and better coordinate activity to tackle the trafficking of children into the UK.

Offences Against Children: British Nationals Abroad

Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  if she will review the effectiveness of legislation governing the prosecution of British nationals who commit sexual offences against children overseas;
	(2)  how many British child sex offenders have been (a) investigated, (b) charged and (c) convicted under section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in (i) the last five years and (ii) since the Act came into force.

Lynne Featherstone: holding answer 20 June 2012
	Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 makes clear that a person who commits certain sexual offence overseas is liable to be subject to the same circumstances as a person who committed those offences in England or Wales. As such, there are no specific offences set out under section 72.
	A person who commits an offence overseas to which section 72 applies will be charged with the appropriate offence under Part 1e of the 2003 Act.

Prisoners: Repatriation

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 18 June 2012, Official Report, columns 677-8W, on prisoners: repatriation, whether any restrictions were placed on any of the repatriated prisoners relating to re-entering the UK; and whether any of the repatriated prisoners have returned to the UK.

Damian Green: Before a repatriation takes place, a deportation order needs to have been signed and served on the individual. A deportation order prevents an individual returning to the UK for as long as it is in force. If a deportation order could not be put in place prior to the repatriation the UK Border Agency ensures that the offender is excluded from the UK. An exclusion order has the same affect as a deportation order in terms of preventing a foreign national offender's re-entry into the UK.

Seized Articles

Gemma Doyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total estimated value was of the goods seized by HM Revenue and Customs officials at UK borders on (a) 10 May 2011 and (b) 10 May 2012.

Damian Green: The data requested are not published by the Home Office. While Border Force holds central records on goods seized at the border, we would need to examine individual case records to apply an estimated value to each commodity seizure and this could be done only at disproportionate cost.
	The Home Office does publish drug seizure statistics, which includes those seized by Border Force. A copy of the latest statistics has been placed in the Library of the House, they can also be accessed via the following link:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/
	Data are also published by the UK Border Agency on seizures of tobacco, the latest statistics for these seizures have also been placed in the Library of the House, or are available here:
	http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk//sitecontent/documents/aboutus/annual-level-of-tax/

Seized Articles

Gemma Doyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will list the goods seized by HM Revenue and Customs officials at UK borders on 10 May (a) 2011 and (b) 2012.

Damian Green: The data requested are not published by the Home Office.
	Border Force holds central records on goods seized at the border but, in order to answer this question, we would need to examine individual case records to list all seizures and this could be done only at disproportionate cost.
	The Home Office does publish drug seizure statistics, which includes those seized by Border Force. A copy of the latest statistics has been placed in the Library of the House, they can also be accessed via the following link:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/
	Data are also published by the UK Border Agency on seizures of tobacco, the latest statistics for these seizures have also been placed in the Library of the House, or are available here:
	http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk//sitecontent/documents/aboutus/annual-level-of-tax/

Vetting

Richard Fuller: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress she has made in considering the recommendations of the Independent Adviser on Criminality Information Management that minor and old convictions should, where appropriate, be removed from Criminal Records Bureau certificates.

Lynne Featherstone: Linked to her review of the criminal records regime in England and Wales, entitled “A Common Sense Approach”, the Independent Advisor for Criminality Information Management, Mrs Sunita Mason, established and chaired an Independent Advisory Panel for the Disclosure of Criminal Records. The panel comprised expert representation from the Information Commissioner's Office, NACRO, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Social Services, Association of Chief Police Officers, Liberty, UNLOCK, the legal profession, the judiciary, academia and others. While continuing to advocate that old and minor convictions should be filtered out from the Criminal Records Bureau disclosures, the report of the panel, which is currently being carefully considered by the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, highlights the complexities and difficulties in devising and implementing an effective and appropriate filtering mechanism. The Government continue to keep this issue under review.

High Speed 2 Railway Line

Steven Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she has made an assessment of the Cabinet Office's Major Projects Authority report on High Speed 2.

Justine Greening: All major projects are reviewed at every stage of their development to ensure that they are delivered as efficiently as possible and provide the best possible value for taxpayers' money. The Major Project Authority's input therefore provides valuable assistance in enabling the Department successfully to deliver High Speed 2.

Regulation

Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what regulations her Department introduced between 1 February 2012 and 31 May 2012; and at what cost to the public purse.

Norman Baker: The number of statutory instruments (Regulations and Orders) made between the 1 February 2012 and 31 May 2012 by the Department for Transport was 636. The instruments are, or will shortly be, available on the legislation.gov website alongside Impact Assessments where produced.
	Of the 636 instruments, 597 were temporary in application and restricted to specific geographical areas. Most of these related to temporary road works, the rest to temporary flying restrictions, for instance in connection with the State Opening of Parliament.
	The remaining 39 are listed below:
	The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/304)
	The Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/305)
	The Public Service Vehicles (Operators' Licences) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/306)
	The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/307)
	The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Licensing of Operators) Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/308)
	The Dover Harbour Revision Order 2012 (SI 2012/416)
	The Street Works (Charges for Occupation of the Highway) (England) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/425)
	The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/443)
	The Portsmouth City Council Access to Portsmouth (1)—Tipner Interchange, M275 Motorway Slip Roads Scheme 2009 Confirmation Instrument 2012 (SI 2012/463)
	The London Cable Car Order 2012 (SI 2012/472)
	The Humber Bridge (Debts) Order 2012 (SI 2012/716)
	The Merchant Shipping (Ship-to-Ship Transfers) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/742)
	The Traffic Management (St Helens Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012 (SI 2012/785)
	The Policing of Aerodromes (Belfast International Airport) Order 2012 (SI 2012/837)
	The A1 Trunk Road (Elkesley Junctions Improvement) Order 2012 (SI 2012/839)
	The Bus Lane Contraventions (Approved Local Authorities) (England) (Amendment) and Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions Designation Order 2012 (SI 2012/846)
	The Dunham Bridge (Revision of Tolls) Order 2012 (SI 2012/852)
	The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/977)
	The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Oldham, Mumps Modification) Order 2012 (SI 2012/981)
	The M1 Motorway (Junctions 10 to 13) (Actively Managed Hard Shoulder and Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/985)
	The Road Transport (Working Time) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/991)
	The Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers' Licensing) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1017)
	The Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers' Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1134)
	The Milford Haven Port Authority (Constitution) Harbour Revision Order 2012 (SI 2012/1154)
	The A453 Birmingham to Nottingham Trunk Road (M1 Junction 24 to A52 Nottingham Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 2012 (SI 2012/1218)
	The A453 Birmingham to Nottingham Trunk Road (M1 Junction 24 to A52 Nottingham Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2012 (SI 2012/1219)
	The Road Vehicles (Individual Approval) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1271)
	The Traffic Management (Doncaster Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012 (SI 2012/1282)
	The Traffic Management (Rotherham Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012 (SI 2012/1284)
	The Traffic Management (The Council of the Borough of Kirklees) Permit Scheme Order 2012 (SI 2012/1286)
	The Traffic Management (Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012 (SI 2012/1289)
	The Traffic Management (Sheffield City Council) Permit Scheme Order (SI 2012/1294)
	The Traffic Management (Leeds City Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012 (SI 2012/1295)
	The Street Works (Charges for Occupation of the Highway) (Transport for London) Order 2012 (SI 2012/1322)
	The Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Act 2009 (Commencement No.1) Order 2012 (SI 2012/1356)
	The M54 Motorway (Junction 2 Improvements i 54 Strategic Employment Area) (Trunk Roads) Order 2012 (SI 2012/1384)
	The M54 Motorway (Junction 2 Improvements i54 Strategic Employment Area) (Connecting Roads) Scheme 2012 (SI 2012/1385)
	The Humber Bridge Board (Membership) Order 2012 (SI 2012/1392)
	The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/1404)
	Government policy does not require an Impact Assessment to be prepared for an instrument where the cost to the public purse is less than £5 million per year, unless there are also costs or savings to businesses or civil society organisations.
	Information about costs to the public purse where there is no Impact Assessment, or there is but it does not quantify any costs to the public purse, could only be provided at disproportionate cost. This is because of the level of analysis that would be required to answer the question.
	Impact assessments which identify estimated costs to the public purse were prepared for the following instruments:
	1. the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/443):
	Training staff from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency = £1,000;
	reduction in Government revenue (reduced vehicle excise duty rates) to vehicles with a Reduced Pollution Certificate = £5 to £500 per vehicle.
	2. Merchant Shipping (Ship-to-Ship Transfers) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/742):
	In 5.3.3 of the Impact Assessment (available at:
	http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/742/pdfs/uksifia_20120742_en.pdf)
	it states that the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
	“could potentially incur additional costs due to the need to process notifications of the intention to carry out a STS (ship to ship) transfer outside of the UK territorial sea but within the UK's counter pollution zone. It has not been possible to monetise this potential cost in this impact assessment as it is not possible to estimate the number of notifications that would be made.”
	3. M1 Motorway (Junctions 10 to 13) (Actively Managed Hard Shoulder and Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/985):
	£0.1 million annual cost of enforcement;
	Other costs on the Highways Agency of installing, operating and maintaining and renewing the managed motorway system that the Regulations relate to are referred to in the Impact Assessment (at:
	http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/985/pdfs/uksifia_20120985_en.pdf)
	but these are costs associated with introducing the system as a whole, not specifically with the Regulations.

Motability

Karl McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  what the total cost to the public purse was in each region of assistance provided for insuring vehicles acquired under the Motability scheme in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available;
	(2)  how many leased cars have been acquired in each region via (a) the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance and (b) the War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement in each of the last 10 years, for which figures are available; and what makes and models of car were acquired in each region in each year.

Maria Miller: Anyone in receipt of the higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance or war pensioners mobility supplement can choose to exchange some or all of their benefit for a Motability vehicle. The provision of Mobility scheme vehicles, including insurance costs is therefore largely self-financed through the transfer of benefits, which would be payable whether or not a person participates in the scheme. Consequently, the cost of insuring Motability vehicles is not an additional expense which is borne by the taxpayer.
	Information on how many leased cars have been acquired in each region is not held by the Government as Motability is an independent charitable organisation, wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme. Motability have advised that they will write to the hon. Member with such information as they have. Any further detailed questions about the operation of the scheme can be directed at Motability and can be sent to:
	Declan O'Mahony
	Director
	Motability
	Warwick House
	Roydon Road
	Harlow
	Essex
	CM19 5PX.

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  how many investigators worked in his Department's risk assurance division in each financial year since 2006-07;
	(2)  what the budget was for his Department's risk assurance division in each financial year since 2006-07;
	(3)  how many investigations were carried out by his Department's risk assurance division investigators involving (a) his Department's staff and (b) external contractors or providers in each financial year since 2006-07.

Chris Grayling: Risk Assurance Division comprised of four business functions: Risk Management (identifying risks and countermeasures), Performance Measurement (providing estimates of levels of benefit fraud and error), Internal Audit (providing independent; objective assurance) and Internal Investigations (investigating allegations of fraud and other serious wrongdoing by the Department's staff and contractors). In October 2011, the Internal Audit and Internal Investigations functions became a separate directorate.
	Allegations of potential fraud or irregularities are investigated by professionally trained staff, who refer the matter to the police where sufficient evidence of criminal offences is discovered. The whole number of full-time equivalent staff employed by Internal Investigations in each year since 2006-07 was:
	
		
			 As at March each year Number of full-time equivalent staff 
			 2007 87 
			 2008 81 
			 2009 71 
			 2010 69 
			 2011 58 
			 2012 49 
		
	
	Increased use of automated tools to support audit trail analysis has improved the efficient identification and appropriate investigation of cases involving the Department's staff, with professionally trained investigators only involved in more serious or criminal cases. This has supported the reduction in investigation staff. There has been no reduction in the capacity to carry out investigations of allegations of external contractor or provider fraud or irregularities. All allegations of suspected staff or contractor fraud continue to be investigated professionally and thoroughly, and, where appropriate, these are referred to the police.
	The budget for Risk Assurance Division (and latterly Internal Audit and Investigations) for each financial year since 2006-07 was:
	
		
			 £ million 
			  Risk Assurance Division Internal Investigations 
			 2006-07 28.1 3.7 
			 2007-08 27.4 3.5 
			 2008-09 25.2 3.2 
			 2009-10 23.5 3.0 
			 2010-11 23.4 2.7 
		
	
	
		
			 £ million 
			  Internal Audit & Investigations Internal Investigations 
			 2011-12 7.7 2.2 
		
	
	The number of investigations(1) carried out which involved (a) the Department's staff and (b) external contractors or providers in each year since 2006-07 was:
	
		
			  (a) Staff Investigations (b) Contracted Employment Provision Investigations (b) Other Contractor Investigations (2) 
			 2006-07 702 8 1 
			 2007-08 687 27 3 
			 2008-09 856 29 2 
			 2009-10 961 16 0 
			 2010-11 1,146 25 0 
			 2011-12 537 16. 0 
			 (1 )Data are for the number of investigations closed in each year. (2 )Allegations of procurement fraud or financial irregularities in other contracted services.

Universal Credit: Free School Meals

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he plans to announce how free school meals will be included in universal credit.

Chris Grayling: The administration of free school meals is a matter for the Department for Education (DFE). My Department is working closely with colleagues in DFE and other Government Departments and devolved Administrations with responsibility for passported benefits as we tackle the opportunities and challenges in reforming the eligibility criteria for all passported benefits in light of the introduction of universal credit. Our immediate priority is to introduce universal credit in a way that works smoothly with free schools meals and other passported benefits.

Civil Proceedings: Legal Aid Scheme

Alex Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what arrangements are in place to ensure the Legal Service Commission tendering process for face to face civil legal aid services from April 2013 will be undertaken in such a way as to ensure that claimants in receipt of legal aid can receive expert support from welfare benefit specialists.

Jonathan Djanogly: The current tender exercise for face-to-face contracts for 2013 contracts does not include welfare benefits work. Further to the passing of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, the Legal Service Commission (LSC) is considering the position on welfare benefits work that remains in scope and how best to secure access to this advice. The LSC will be publishing further details on its website as soon as it is able to confirm arrangements for this work from April 2013.

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

Bob Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people were employed by the Tribunals Service to deal with appeal cases received by the First-tier Tribunal-Social Security and Child Support in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011 and (d) on the most recent date for which figures are available.

Jonathan Djanogly: The following table shows the number of administrative staff employed by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to deal with appeals received by the First-tier Tribunal—Social Security and Child Support on 31 March of each year between 2009 and 2012 (the latest date for which figures have been published).
	
		
			 Social security and child support tribunal staff numbers 
			  Fixed term contract staff Permanent staff Total number of staff 
			 2009 59 652 711 
			 2010 92 696 788 
			 2011 245 739 984 
			 2012 178 832 1,010 
			 Note: The above data is taken from management information. The figures quoted for the total number of staff employed and include those who work part-time or on a full-time basis. Some of the staff included may work in multi-jurisdictional centres dealing with other work as well as Social Security and Child Support appeals. 
		
	
	The Social Security and Child Support Tribunal disposed of 380,200 appeals in 2010-11. This is an increase of 36% compared to 2009-10 (279,300) and a 55% increase on 2008-09 (245,500). The Tribunal disposed of 322,700 appeals in the period between April and December 2011 (the latest date for which data has been published).

Young Offender Institutions and Prisons

Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  what the cost was of (a) each visit made by independent adjudicators to young offenders institutions and prisons and (b) all such visits in each of the last five years;
	(2)  how visits made by independent adjudicators to young offender institutions and prisons are funded.

Crispin Blunt: The following table shows the standard cost charges to establishments in respect of visits made by independent adjudicators to young offenders institutions and prisons for the last five years from 2007-08 to 2011-12.
	
		
			 Adjudication charges 
			 Financial years Standard cost per visit charged to establishments 
			 2007-08 £305 per visit 
			 2008-09 Varied between £305.00-£335.00 per visit 
			 2009-10 Varied between £333.00-£380.00 per visit 
			 2010-11 Varied between £307.00-£360.00 per visit 
			 2011-12 Varied between £345.00-£353.00 per visit 
			 Notes: 1. Charges are on the basis of a standard cost range per visit. 2. The cost per visit can vary due to several factors, eg distance travelled, necessity for an overnight stay and the number of establishments in close proximity visited on a particular journey. It also includes administration charges. 3. For 2007-08, the majority of the figures are derived from our manual system and therefore it has not been possible to provide the range of cost per visit only the standard cost per visit. 
		
	
	
		
			 Financial years Total adjudication costs charged by HM Courts Service/HM Courts and Tribunals Service to NOMS (£) 
			 2007-08(1) (2)— 
			 2008-09 606,081 
			 2009-10 641,712 
			 2010-11 606,945 
			 2011-12(3) 467,309 
			 (1) Manual records in operation. (2) Full year costs not available. (3) Relates to nine months charges: final three months outstanding from HMCTS. 
		
	
	Costs for visits for independent adjudicators to young offender institutions and prisons are a local cost funded from individual establishments' annual budget allocation.

Carbon Emissions

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the UK's carbon footprint.

Gregory Barker: My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made a pledge to make this the greenest Government ever and the UK leads the world in its ambition for a 50% reduction in emissions through the fourth carbon budget (2023 to 2027).
	Significant steps have been taken to cut emissions. In just one year, carbon emissions within central Government offices were cut by nearly 14% and the Prime Minister has committed Government to go further by reducing emissions by 25% by 2015.
	Emissions projections, published on 13 October 2011, show the UK is on track to meet our first three carbon budgets and our 2020 target to reduce emissions by at least 34%, against the 1990 baseline. The net UK carbon account (emissions allowing for trading) in 2010 was 23% below 1990 levels.
	The Government has demonstrated its determination to support greater energy efficiency across the economy through its work on the Green Deal and the new energy company obligation which will help the poorest and most vulnerable households, and supporting a move to low carbon alternatives to traditional heating through the Renewable Heat Incentive—the first of its kind on the world.
	The Electricity Market Reform programme represents the biggest change to the energy market since privatisation and will transform the UK's electricity sector. Already, the Government has set out a package of reforms (published in a White Paper, July 2011) to deliver secure, low carbon and affordable electricity. These proposals have since been followed up by a 'technical update' and the publication of a draft Energy Bill which is currently undergoing pre-legislative scrutiny.
	In December 2011, the Government published its Carbon Plan, a comprehensive strategy which set out proposals for achieving emissions reductions committed to in the first four carbon budgets, on a pathway consistent with meeting the 2050 target. The Carbon Plan brought together the Government's strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions and set out our plans for achieving a 50% reduction in the UK's emissions relative to 1990 by the fourth carbon budget period over 2023 to 2027.

Energy Supply

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what measures he has put in place to ensure transparency during Contracts for Difference strike price administrative price setting prior to progressing the draft Energy Bill.

Charles Hendry: There will be full transparency over the terms of any investment instruments or Contracts for Difference offered to developers of low carbon electricity generating projects ahead of the Energy Bill receiving Royal Assent.
	The draft Energy Bill includes provisions stating that, for an investment instrument to be issued, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change must have laid a draft of the instrument before Parliament, and must have consulted each person who is a holder of a licence to supply electricity under section 6(1 )(d) of the 1989 Act before the instrument was laid in Parliament.

Energy: Billing

Chris Heaton-Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate his Department has made of the likely cost to the bill payer of a unit of each form of renewable energy in (a) 2012, (b) 2015 and (c) 2020.

Charles Hendry: There are three forms of renewable energy; heat, transport and electricity. The cost of renewable heat technologies are classified as Government spending, which is not passed onto consumers in energy bills, but paid for through taxation. The cost of renewables in transport is determined by the renewable transport fuel obligation (RTFO), which obligates road transport fuel suppliers to ensure a percentage of fuels they supply in the UK come from renewable sources. Suppliers pass on the costs of the RTFO to petrol consumers. The cost of renewable electricity support is funded by electricity suppliers through their obligation to pay incentives to renewable generators. Suppliers pass on those charges to electricity customers ie bill-payers.
	The renewable electricity incentives in question are the level of the renewables obligation, the value of levy exemption certificates, and the value of total payments under the feed-in tariffs scheme. Adding these amounts together gives the total net subsidy cost that is assumed to pass through to consumer's bills. The impact on actual bills depends on the level of electricity sales, the number of customers and the average bill size.
	The subsidy cost of renewable electricity per unit generated supported through the renewables obligation in 2012 is estimated to be the value of the levy exemption certificate (around £5/MWh) plus the ROC band multiplied by the value of a ROC (around £45 in 2012-13 prices). These values are uprated in line with the retail prices index each year. Current ROC bands for each individual technology, and proposals for future bands are set out in Table 2 of the RO banding review consultation:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/consultation/ro-banding/3235-consultation-ro-banding.pdf
	Under the Electricity Market Reform, the renewables obligation will be closed to new capacity from 1 April 2017 and large scale renewable electricity will be supported through the new FIT with Contract for Difference scheme, which is currently being developed.
	The net subsidy cost for technologies supported through the feed-in tariffs scheme is determined by the level of generation tariffs under the scheme. Future levels of the generation tariff for solar PV from August 2012, and the methodology for setting future levels are set out in the Government response to consultation on Phase 2A of the FITs comprehensive review:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/fits_rev_ph2a/fits_rev_ph2a.aspx
	Proposals for other technologies are set out in the Phase 2B consultation:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/fits_rev_ph2b/fits_rev_ph2b.aspx
	Final decisions on phase 2B are due to be announced in the summer.

Green Deal Scheme

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2012, Official Report, column 361W, on the Green Deal Scheme, if he will assess the compatibility of this answer with the provisions of clause 34 of The Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgment, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012.

Gregory Barker: Regulation 34 of the draft Green Deal Framework (Disclosure, Acknowledgment, Redress etc.) Regulations 2012 prevents Green Deal Providers from including in Green Deal plans a term which restricts a bill payer from changing gas or electricity supplier. So, for example, a Green Deal Provider who is also an energy supplier (or is connected to a supplier) will not be able to use the Green Deal Plan as a way of tying customers to their supply.
	This is different from the provision that will be enacted through a modification to the electricity supply licence conditions: the electricity supplier for a property with a live Green Deal plan must have acceded to the Green Deal Arrangements Agreement (GDAA), and suppliers who have not acceded to the GDAA will not be able to accept customers with Green Deal Plans.
	The licence condition modifications will stipulate that larger electricity suppliers (more than 250,000 customers) must be a party to the GDAA while smaller electricity suppliers (less than 250,000 customers) can choose to accede to the GDAA.

Green Deal Scheme

Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the £200 million to support incentives for the early adopters of the Green Deal will be drawn from his existing departmental budget.

Gregory Barker: The 2011 autumn statement announced £200 million of additional one-off capital resource to support the Green Deal. This will be added to DECC's departmental budget as £30 million in financial year 12-13 and £170 million in financial year 13-14.

Oil

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of 
	(1)  the effect of environmental legislation and policy on the petroleum refining industry;
	(2)  the effect of energy legislation and policy on the petroleum refining industry.

Charles Hendry: DECC has made a number of assessments of the impact of a range of factors on the petroleum refining industry. Most recently, in 2011, we published a detailed study on developments in international downstream oil markets and their drivers, and implications for the UK refining sector. This included an assessment of the effect of energy and environmental legislation and policy on the petroleum refining sector. The report can be found on DECC's website at:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/meeting_energy/en_security/downstream_oil/improving/improving.aspx
	DECC is currently working with the industry on a further study, which is looking at a range of factors that could impact on competitiveness of UK refining industry to form the basis for a strategic policy framework for the UK refining sector. The study is due to be concluded in autumn 2012.

Wind Power

Nigel Adams: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information his Department holds on the number and capacity of wind turbines which are (a) operational and (b) in the planning process; and whether his Department relies on the industry trade body to provide statistics on the number and capacity of wind turbines.

Charles Hendry: DECC's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD)(1) tracks the progress of renewable electricity projects from inception, through planning, construction and operational phases and is updated on a monthly basis. The following tables show the breakdown of wind turbine numbers and capacity for May 2012.
	(1) Note:
	https://restats.decc.gov.uk/cms/planning-database/
	
		
			    (b) Planning Applications—number of turbines 
			 Wind Technology Source (a) Number of operational turbines Submitted Awaiting Construction Under Construction 
			 Wind Offshore REPD 568 1,072 323 863 
			 Wind Onshore REPD 3,311 2,809 1,819 925 
			  RESTATS 318 n/a n/a n/a 
		
	
	
		
			 Total  4,197 3,881 2,142 1,788 
		
	
	
		
			   (b) Planning application capacity MW 
			 Wind Technology (a) Operational capacity MW Under construction MW Awaiting construction MW Under consideration MW 
			 Wind offshore 1,858 2,729 988 4,521 
			 Wind onshore 4,794 2,220 4,217 6,451 
			 Total 6,652 4,949 5,205 10,972 
		
	
	The data is derived from REPD surveys, carried out on a monthly basis, and RESTATS data collection activities carried out primarily on an annual basis with estimates on a quarterly basis. Data sources include the Infrastructure Planning Commission, planning authority websites, developers websites, trade association websites, journals, ad hoc market intelligence sources, DECC and devolved Government websites/contacts (including S36 Consents), Ofgem ROCs database with crosschecking against other data collection activities such as Renewables UK. It should be noted that within REPD the definition of an operational project requires that every turbine must have generated. The definitions used by other organisations may vary.

Experian

Jessica Morden: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) cost and (b) duration is of the contract between Experian, the Department of Work and Pensions and HM Revenue and Customs to use data to detect fraud and error in tax credits and other benefits.

David Gauke: holding answer 19 June 2012
	The contract with Experian is for 12 months and is due to expire early December 2012.
	The total cost of the contract is not yet known because it is being delivered through a Payment by Results model. This means that Experian receive payment when they help HMRC and DWP deliver their targets to reduce fraud and error.
	HMRC does not expect payment to exceed £170,000 in total by the end of the contract.

Income Tax: British Nationals Abroad

Frank Dobson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue the exchequer received from income tax paid by UK citizens abroad in each of the last five years.

David Gauke: Estimated income tax liabilities for those with a tax correspondence address which is abroad is shown in the following table:
	
		
			  Income tax (£ million) 
			 2005-06 1,280 
			 2006-07 1,630 
			 2007-08 2,100 
			 2008-09 (1)— 
			 2009-10 2,160 
			 (1) Figures for 2008-09 tax year are not currently available. 
		
	
	Estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes, of which 2009-10 are the latest outturn data available.
	A breakdown of these liabilities arising between UK citizens and others is not available through income tax data.

Loans: Republic of Ireland

Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
	(1)  when the Republic of Ireland is due to begin repayment of the UK contribution to the EU-IMF bailout programme;
	(2)  by what date the Republic of Ireland is (a) required and (b) expected to have repaid in full the UK contribution to the joint EU-IMF bailout programme.

Mark Hoban: As part of a €67.5 billion international financial assistance package, the UK has made a bilateral loan of £3.2 billion available to Ireland. The UK also holds a contingent liability for any loans made through the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism. With regard to IMF involvement, the UK lends to the IMF as an institution and not to particular programmes. The repayment arrangements for the UK's bilateral loan to Ireland are set out in the Loan Agreement which I deposited in the Library of the House on 10 January 2011. The Government expects to be repaid in full.
	Each tranche of the loan is due for repayment in full, 7.5 years following the date of disbursement. The maturity dates of the tranches disbursed to date are: 15 April 2019, 30 July 2019 and 30 September 2019.
	Interest on each disbursed tranche of the loan is payable every six months on 15 December and 15 June until its maturity date.
	Disbursements made under the bilateral loan to Ireland are conditional on successful completion of EU/IMF reviews and also require Ireland to make a formal drawdown request. Consequently, future disbursement (and therefore, maturity) dates are not set. However, under the terms of the Loans to Ireland Act 2010, the Treasury may make payments to Ireland until 8 December 2015. We can therefore expect the very latest maturity to be 7.5 years following this date.

PAYE

Ian Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate (a) the total cost to employers of commercial payroll software, (b) the number of employers who will upgrade their commercial payroll software and (c) the amount this upgrade will cost per employer as a result of PAYE Real Time information.

David Gauke: Total software costs have not yet been estimated. Software developers will need to implement changes in their products, and these costs may be passed on to employers via increased software charges. HMRC is working closely with software developers on the implementation of RTI but, for commercial reasons, many developers are not prepared to disclose their development costs or upgrade charges. Some employers are also expected to move to using software for the first time.
	Employers with nine or fewer employees will have the option to use HMRCs free Basic PAYE Tools.
	Indicative costs for those purchasing commercial software for the first time are currently in the region of £200 to £300 but some software developers provide payroll packages free of charge for employers with nine or fewer employees and other packages are available from less than £70.

VAT: Lanarkshire

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many businesses in Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency were registered for VAT in each of the last three years.

David Gauke: No estimate has been made of the number of businesses in Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency registered for VAT in each of the last three years. The number of Value Added Tax registrations by parliamentary constituency up until 2008 can be found in the report 'Business Start-ups and Closures: VAT Registrations and De-registrations', published by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform:
	http://stats.berr.gov.uk/ed/vat/
	This report was discontinued in 2008.

Afghanistan

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress was made on increasing stability in Afghanistan at the NATO summit in Chicago; whether any discussions took place on (a) violence against women and (b) co-ordination on this issue between (i) the Ministry of Defence and (ii) the Department for International Development; and if he will make a statement.

Alistair Burt: At the NATO Chicago summit, the international community clearly demonstrated its commitment to increasing stability in Afghanistan. All 50 International Security Assistance Force partners signed the NATO Strategic Plan which set out NATO's post-2014 role and its long-term relationship with Afghanistan. International Security Assistance Force partners delivered on the commitments made at the Bonn Conference with credible financial contributions to sustain the Afghan National Security Forces beyond the end of security transition.
	There were discussions on UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on women, peace and security. The summit communiqué reaffirmed NATO's commitment to full implementation of UNSCR 1325 and also endorsed a Strategic Progress Report on mainstreaming UNSCR 1325 into NATO-led operations and missions.
	Discussions on internal UK coordination did not take place at the NATO Chicago summit. The Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office continue to coordinate their defence, diplomatic and development activities in Afghanistan to promote the inclusion of women in conflict resolution through a specific country action plan for Afghanistan contained in the UK's National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325.

Argentina

Jim Shannon: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government is taking to end the blocking of British trade to Argentinean ports.

Jeremy Browne: We are concerned that the Argentine Confederation of Transport Workers union (CATT) is currently boycotting ships flying the British flag or the red ensign of other UK territories, which has resulted in several British-flagged vessels being refused tug boat services to access Argentine ports.
	This, along with a range of other Argentine measures directed towards British and Falkland Island trade interests is deeply disappointing and goes against the principles of open and transparent trade. The British Government has raised its concerns with Argentina directly and made clear our opposition to actions against legitimate commercial activity. We have also issued advice to British interests in the region, outlining the potential impact of Argentine trade action. The UK fully supports the EU’s decision to initiate a World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute settlement case against Argentina’s restrictive import measures. It is essential that all WTO members meet their obligations to abide by WTO rules.

Euro 2012

Douglas Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether any member of the Government is due to attend any matches that England will play following their qualification in the group stages of the European football championships.

William Hague: The Government regrets that this question is no longer relevant.

Falkland Islands

Lindsay Roy: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment has been made of the quantity of commercially viable oil deposits in the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands.

Jeremy Browne: Hydrocarbon exploration is a legitimate commercial venture and the British Government fully supports the rights of the Falkland Islanders to develop their hydrocarbons sector.
	The total extent of the hydrocarbon deposits are not fully known, but Rockhopper Exploration have declared a commercially viable find in the Northern Basin, and Borders and Southern have declared an untested gas condensate discovery from the Southern Basin. The results of the continuing exploration are required to make any meaningful long-term assessment. Drilling results so far are encouraging.

Papua

Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on the (a) death of Mako Tabuni, the leader of the West Papua national Committee and (b) effect on civilians of operations undertaken by Indonesian police and military in West Papua in the last three months; and if he will make a statement.

Jeremy Browne: Our embassy in Jakarta reported that the Indonesian security forces had shot dead Mako Tabuni on 14 June. However, the circumstances surrounding his death are still unclear. The police in Indonesia have stated that Mako Tabuni was approached by police in connection with recent shootings in Jayapura and that he resisted arrest. However, some sources in the press dispute this. The recent upsurge in violence in Papua, centred on Jayapura and Wamena, has created tension across Papua. This no doubt undermines the trust between the authorities, the activists and ordinary people, and the work to resolve regional governance disputes. Our embassy in Jakarta has raised our concerns about the security situation with the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and are monitoring the situation closely. The UK encourages meaningful dialogue between all parties and remains committed to urging all levels of Government to work with the Papuans towards resolving regional governance issues peacefully.

Sri Lanka

Steven Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the effects of the military presence in northern Sri Lanka on the prospects for reconciliation in that country.

Alistair Burt: We remain concerned about the role of the military in the North and East of Sri Lanka. We support the recommendation of Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) that the Northern Province should return to civilian administration and the presence of the military should progressively recede to the background.

Energy

Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which energy supplier supplies his Department with (a) gas and (b) electricity.

Simon Burns: The Department's current energy suppliers are Corona Energy (gas) and EDF (electricity at major sites) and British Gas (electricity at minor sites). The definition of “major site” or “minor site” depends on whether electricity is metered on a half-hourly basis. Most of the Department's sites are classed as “major”.
	In line with Government procurement policy, the Department sources its energy through companies in a framework with the Government Procurement Service. The suppliers changed on 1 April 2012.

Energy

Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on (a) gas and (b) electricity bills in each of the last 10 years.

Simon Burns: The total expenditure in the Department's owned or leased buildings is as follows:
	
		
			 (a ) Gas 
			  £ 
			 2002-03 86,367 
			 2003-04 78,989 
			 2004-05 115,470 
			 2005-06 157,684 
			 2006-07 145,703 
			 2007-08 105,214 
			 2008-09 140,035 
			 2009-10 151,120 
			 2010-11 117,690 
			 2011-12 139,343 
		
	
	
		
			 (b ) Electricity 
			  £ 
			 2002-03 602,320 
			 2003-04 631,337 
			 2004-05 754,096 
			 2005-06 911,063 
			 2006-07 949,735 
			 2007-08 853,476 
			 2008-09 1,424,184 
			 2009-10 1,109,015 
			 2010-11 862,052 
			 2011-12 1,145,671

Ethics and Confidentiality Committee

Andy Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which body or bodies will take over from him in approving the recommendations of the Ethics and Confidentiality Committee; and if he will make a statement.

Anne Milton: The Government has commissioned a review of the current information governance rules and their application, to ensure an appropriate balance between the protection of confidential and identifiable information within our health and care records and the use and sharing of that information to improve the quality and safety of our own care and for the benefit of wider society. Dame Fiona Caldicott is leading this independent review which will report later in the year.
	Future arrangements for the decision-making and advisory functions for approvals for the processing of confidential patient information under the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 are currently being finalised, taking account of the review's emerging findings. These arrangements will need to be further reviewed in due course, in the light of the independent review's final findings.

Health Education

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which public health campaigns his Department has funded in each of the last 10 years; and how much his Department spent on each such campaign.

Anne Milton: The following tables show spend figures for all public health campaigns from 1999-2000 to 2009-10 (we do not yet have complete figures for 2010-11):
	
		
			 £ million 
			 Campaigns 1999-2000 (1) 2000-01 (1) 2001-02 (1) 2002-03 (1) 2003-04 (1) 
			 5 A Day — — — 0.50 0.48 
			 Alcohol — — — 0.10 0.05 
			 Antibiotics 0.91 — 0.44 0.44 0.42 
			 Blood Donation 0.22 — — — — 
			 Children's Health/Pregnancy — — — — 0.05 
			 Drugs Advertising(2) 0.53 0.50  1.52 1.50 
			 Flu Immunisation — 2.02 1.45 2.00 1.60 
			 Hepatitis C — — — — 0.15 
			 Immunisation — — 0.67 1.00 2.00 
			 Maternal and Infant Nutrition/ Breastfeeding — — — 0.28 0.46 
			 Mind Out/Mental Health — — 0.13 0.16 0.95 
			 Sexual Health Awareness — — 0.30 1.50 1,50 
		
	
	
		
			 Sexwise/Teenage Pregnancy 0.39 — 2.00 1.60 2.00 
			 Smoking—Tobacco Control 6.18 8.97 7.79 7.87 17.34 
			 TB Awareness — — 0.30 0.09 0.01 
			 (1) Figures are net plus agency fees and commissions (rounded to nearest £10,000). Figures exclude VAT and Central Office of Information (COI) fees. (2) Department of Health contribution to campaign run jointly with Home Office. 
		
	
	
		
			 £ million 
			 Campaigns 2004-05 (1) 2005-06 (1) 2006-07 (1) 2007-08 (1) 2008-09 (2) 2009-10 (2) 
			 5 A DAY 0.06 0.05 0.05 — — — 
			 Alcohol — — 0.56 0.61 4.77 4.65 
			 Antibiotics — 0.38 — 0.39 1.15 — 
			 Cancer — — — — — — 
			 Child Immunisation — — 1.66 — 0.29 — 
			 Drugs Advertising 0.91 0.18 1.34 0.67 1.45 — 
			 Flu Immunisation 1.45 1.83 1.11 0.98 1.42 0.28 
			 FRANK(3) — — — — — 1.66 
			 Hepatitis C — — 0.52 1.34 1.30 1.39 
			 HPV Vaccination — — — — 2.80 4.07 
			 MMR Uptake Campaign — — — — 0.03 0.53 
			 National Dementia Strategy — — — — — 1.67 
			 Obesity/Change4Life — — — — 7.69 16.16 
			 Pandemic Flu — — — — — 11.24 
			 Respiratory and Hand Hygiene — — — 0.32 1.53 2.63 
			 Sexual Health Awareness 0.28 — 2.88 3.11 2.83 8.16 
			 Stroke Awareness — — — — 4.52 2.45 
			 Tobacco Control 20.05 20.80 13.49 16.17 23.38 24.91 
			 (1) Figures are net plus agency fees and commissions (rounded to nearest £10,000). Figures exclude VAT and Central Office of Information (COI) fees. (2) Provisional figures rounded to nearest £10,000. Figures exclude VAT and COI fees. (3) Department of Health share with Home Office.

Hypertension

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recent long-term trends in the number and proportion of people diagnosed with blood-pressure related disorders.

Simon Burns: High blood pressure is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease and stroke.
	We know that the number of people with these diseases is predicted to increase because of demographic changes and increases in obesity. The development of a Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Strategy is under way to ensure we have measures in place to continue to improve cardiovascular disease outcomes and deliver the very best care for patients.

Medical Records: Data Protection

Julian Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will ensure the new EU data protection regulation provides greater clarity and proportionality for patient data use in medical research.

Simon Burns: The Ministry of Justice is co-ordinating the Government’s input into the EU data protection regulation and Department of Health officials are actively involved in this work to represent the interests of all parties in the United Kingdom who have a justifiable need to process health data. This includes ensuring that any new directive or regulation provides a clear and workable framework for health research compliance with data protection requirements.
	Data protection law is, however, only one component of the governance framework for health research and the Government has commissioned a review of the current information governance rules and their application. The aim of this review is to ensure that an appropriate balance is struck between the protection of confidential and identifiable information within our health and care records and the use and sharing of that information to improve the quality and safety of our own care and for the benefit of wider society. Dame Fiona Caldicott is leading this independent review which will report later in the year.

Midwives

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many pre-registration midwifery places were commissioned in each strategic health authority area in England in (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13.

Anne Milton: The number of pre-registration midwifery training commissions in each strategic health authority'(SHA) in 2011-12 are shown in the following table:
	
		
			 2011-12 actual midwifery commissions (including 18 month diploma) 
			  Number 
			 NHS North East 89 
			 NHS North West 255 
			 NHS Yorkshire and the Humber 271 
			 NHS East Midlands 169 
			 NHS West Midlands 287 
			 NHS East of England 270 
			 NHS London 573 
			 NHS South East Coast 216 
			 NHS South Central 200 
			 NHS South West 154 
			 England 2,484 
			 Source: Multi-professional education and training monitoring returns. 
		
	
	The actual number of midwifery training commissions for 2012-13 will not be available until May 2013. However, SHAs are planning an increase of 94 (3.8%) midwifery commissions on the previous year, as shown in the following table:
	
		
			 2011-12 planned midwifery commissions (including 18 month diploma) 
			  Number 
			 NHS North East 94 
			 NHS North West 253 
			 NHS Yorkshire and the Humber 261 
			 NHS East Midlands 172 
			 NHS West Midlands 294 
			 NHS East of England 274 
			 NHS London 629 
			 NHS South East Coast 238 
			 NHS South Central 209 
			 NHS South West 154 
			 England 2,578 
			 Source: Multi-professional education and training monitoring returns.

NHS: Pensions

Jeremy Lefroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his most recent estimate is of (a) total contributions to the NHS pension scheme and (b) payments from the NHS pension scheme expected to be made under (i) current and (ii) new pension arrangements in each of the fiscal years from 2012-13 to 2039-40.

Simon Burns: Contributions made to the NHS Pension Scheme in 2010-11 by employers was £5.553 billion and by employees was £2.578 billion making a total of £8.131 billion.
	Payments from the NHS Pension Scheme under the current arrangements is in the following table. Forecasts are only available until 2017.
	
		
			 March 2012 forecast 
			 £ million 
			  Outturn      Forecasts 
			  2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 
			 Pension scheme Expenditure 6,931.3 7,552.7 8,515.5 8,981.5 9,483.4 9,943.2 10,548.8 
			         
			 Pension scheme receipts -8,696.7 -8,533.2 -9,060.5 -9,158.6 -9,217.3 -9,440.6 -9,726.4 
			 Of which:        
			 Employer contributions -5,553.2 -5,492.4 -5,421.9 -5,511.3 -5,561.6 -5,734.0 -5,911.7 
			 Employee contributions -2,578.3 -2,568.4 -3,075.6 -3,126.0 . -3,154.6 -3,252.3 -3,353.2 
			 Other income -565.2 -472.4 -563.0 -521.3 -501.1 -454.3 -461.5 
			 Source: Data published by the Office of Budgetary Responsibility—March 2012 
		
	
	The table does include the known increase in employee contributions with an increase of £507 million in 2012-13. It does not yet include the changes to the contribution rates for 2013-14 and 2014-15 as these are subject to consultation.
	Payment information on the new pension arrangements in each of the fiscal years from 2012-13 to 2039-40 is unavailable.

Nurses: Temporary Employment

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each NHS trust spent on temporary nursing staff (a) provided by NHS Professionals and (b) excluding NHS Professionals in each year since 2004-05.

Anne Milton: The data requested is not available in the format requested. The Department does not require trusts to separate spend on temporary nursing staff from total agency spend and NHS Professionals (NHSP) does not provide the data by trust as it is commercially sensitive.
	The following figures show the total revenues relating to nursing bank and agency staff charged to national health service trusts by NHSP:
	
		
			 £000 
			  Nursing: 
			 Invoiced Bank Agency 
			 2011-12 213,459 56,163 
			 2010-11 220,937 52,949 
			 2009-10 238,027 46,784 
			 2008-09 223,239 26,431 
			 2007-08 194,189 10,599 
			 2006-07 184,345 35,259 
			 2005-06 188,597 67,374 
			 2004-05 158,236 57,332 
			 Caveats: 1. Not all agency spend is recorded by NHSP. Some agency staff may be ordered and paid for by ward managers outside of NHSP contracts. 2. NHSP are not able to separately record qualified and unqualified nursing separately, therefore the figures may include both. 3. No directly comparable data for the total spend by the NHS on temporary nursing staff exists.

Obesity: Children

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average weight and obesity levels were of a child at (a) birth, (b) five years and (c) 10 years in (i) 1990, (ii) 2000 and (iii) 2010.

Anne Milton: Information on children's mean weight is available in the “Health Survey for England—2010 child trend tables”, Table 2. Information is provided for children aged 0-15, for each year from 1995-2010.
	An equivalent table which shows the trend in mean body mass index (BMI) is available in Table 3 of the same child trend tables.
	Information on the percentage of obese children by age group (2-10 years, 11-15 years and 2-15 years, for 1995-2010) is available in Table 4 of the child trend tables.
	The above information is available at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/hse10trends
	Information on the percentage of obese children by age and sex for 2010 is available in Table 11.2 of the “Health Survey for England 2010”, Chapter 11, Children's BMI, Overweight and Obesity. This information is available at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/hse10report
	Equivalent data is not available for 1990. For 2000 the data has not been published.
	Further information on the prevalence of obesity in children is available through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Information is available for children in Reception (4-5 years) and year 6 (10-11 years) for 2010-11. Information showing the prevalence of obesity in these two school years in England is available at Table 1 of the “National Child Measurement Programme: England, 2010/11 school year” report. This report is available at:
	www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/health-and-lifestyles/obesity/national-child-measurement-programme-england-2010-11-school-year
	NCMP data is only available from 2006-07.
	Copies of these documents have been placed in the Library.

Primary Care Trusts: Redundancy

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many primary care trust staff in the North East of England covered by his Department's initial redundancy consultation launched in June 2012 he estimates could be re-employed by clinical commissioning groups;
	(2)  what estimate he has made of the number of primary care trust staff who will be made redundant in the north-east of England in 2012-13; and how many such staff he estimates will be subsequently re-employed within the NHS.

Simon Burns: Primary care trusts (PCTs) are responsible for. conducting their own redundancy consultations, in accordance with employment legislation. The Secretary of State has no direct involvement with these procedures.
	Data on the numbers of PCT staff in the north-east of England who will be made redundant in 2012-13, and those who will be subsequently re-employed within the national health service, are not available. Greater clarity on the numbers of staff affected by change will gradually become available, but the full position will not be known until after 31 December 2012.

Thalidomide

Bob Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to improve health and social care provision for thalidomide survivors.

Paul Burstow: The Government is committed to improving outcomes for disabled people and supporting them to live independent lives. This principle of improving outcomes and giving people more choice and control and purchasing power over the services they receive underpins all our health, social care and welfare reforms.
	In December 2009, the previous Government made a £20 million grant to the Thalidomide Trust for a three-year pilot scheme in England, running from April 2010 until March 2013, to explore how the health needs of Thalidomide survivors can best be met in the longer term. Departmental officials have discussed the evaluation of the first year of the pilot with members of the Thalidomide Trust and the National Advisory Council and are awaiting the evaluation of the second year.

Advisory Services: Finance

Yvonne Fovargue: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office 
	(1)  how many advice agencies have received funding from the £107 million Big Society Transition Fund announced in the spending review October 2010;
	(2)  how much and what proportion of the £107 million Big Society Transition Fund announced in the October 2010 spending review was received by advice agencies.

Nick Hurd: Of the 1,010 organisations that were awarded Transition Fund grants, at least 52 are advice agencies. The grants to advice agencies total at least £17.5 million (16.4%) of the £107 million fund.
	In addition, the Government has already made £16.8 million available to the not-for-profit advice sector in England through the Advice Service Fund, with a further £40 million announced in the recent Budget for advice services across the UK.

Data Visualisation

Chris Ruane: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps he is taking to encourage the use of new techniques in data visualisation in his Department.

Francis Maude: holding answer 18 June 2012
	The Government has been publishing unprecedented amounts of data through data.gov.uk in formats that facilitate the creation of data visualisations and has been working with developers and data users to understand more about what they want. Currently, the public has access to over 45,000 Government data files through data.gov.uk and we are working to identify more.

Heart Diseases

Stephen Hepburn: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many men aged between 35 and 64 years in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK have died from heart disease in each of the last five years.

Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated June 2012
	As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many men aged between 35.and 64 years died from heart disease in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each of the last five years (113682).
	Table 1 as follows shows the number of deaths where ischaemic heart disease was the underlying cause for (a) Jarrow parliamentary constituency, (b) South Tyneside local authority, (c) the North East region and the UK between 2G06 and 2010 (the latest year available).
	
		
			 Table 1. Number of deaths from heart disease among men aged between 35 and 64 years in the UK, the North East region, South Tyneside local authority and Jarrow parliamentary constituency, 2006-10 (1, 2, 3) 
			 Deaths (persons) 
			 Area 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 
			 United Kingdom 10,549 10,238 9,836 9,289 9,120 
			 North East region 504 527 483 480 474 
			 South Tyneside local authority 29 35 26 35 19 
			 Jarrow parliamentary constituency 16 29 8 21 8 
			 (1 )Figures arc for deaths registered in each calendar year and include non-residents for the UK. All sub-national figures exclude non-residents. (2) Cause of death for heart disease was defined using the International Classifications of Diseases Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes I20-I25. (3) Figures are based on boundaries as of February 2012.

Children: Day Care

Fiona Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what costs are incurred in undertaking an inspection visit of a child minder.

Sarah Teather: holding answer 19 June 2012
	This information is held by Ofsted. The Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has written to the hon. Member and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Libraries.
	Letter from Sir Michael Wilshaw, dated 15 June 2012
	Your recent parliamentary question has been passed to me, as Her Majesty's Chief
	Inspector, for response.
	The average cost of an inspection visit of a childminder is £731. By ‘inspection visit’ we mean a programmed inspection, post registration inspection and re-inspection of either a sole childminder or childminder with assistants.
	All costs relate to the most recent full year, 2011-12, and include direct and indirect costs plus overheads. It should be noted that overall costs in Ofsted have reduced since 2010-11 and are planned to reduce in total by 30% by 2014-15 (the end of the current Comprehensive Spending Review period).
	A copy of this reply has been sent to Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for Schools, and will be placed in the Library of both Houses.

Children: Disability

Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Education 
	(1)  what steps his Department is taking with local authorities to ensure that disabled children are able to access child care;
	(2)  what steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled children aged two years are able to access appropriate child care.

Sarah Teather: In "Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability—progress and next steps", published in May 2012, the Government confirmed plans to require local authorities to publish a local offer setting out the support available to disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs and their families. The Government will set out the national framework for the local offer in law, including information on the early education that is available to children with disabilities.
	Local authorities have a duty to secure sufficient child care locally to meet the needs of working parents. The Government are strengthening the statutory guidance underpinning this duty so that, from September 2012, local authorities will prepare an annual report for parents and councillors on how they are meeting the duty. This will include how they are ensuring that there is sufficient child care available to meet the needs of disabled children.
	All three- and four-year-olds, including children with disabilities, are entitled to 15 hours a week of free early education. This entitlement will be extended to around 40% of two-year-olds from September 2014. The Government will consult shortly on which two-year-olds should be eligible for the entitlement.

Children: Disability

Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how his Department is monitoring local authority delivery of services under the Breaks for Carers for Disabled Children Regulations 2010.

Sarah Teather: The Department does not directly monitor local authority delivery of services under draft legislation in The Breaks for Carers for Disabled Children Regulations 2010, nor under the UK statutory instrument, The Breaks for Carers for Disabled Children Regulations 2011 Number 707, which came into effect in April 2011.
	The Department has contracted with a consortium known as Impact to provide tailored support to all 152 local authorities in England to help them ensure that they meet their legal obligations under the Short Breaks Duty. Impact is contracted to identify and promote good practice through case studies and research and to support local authorities in developing the capacity and sustainability of short breaks providers.
	As part of its work for the Department, Impact is collecting information about the number of Short Break Duty Statements that have been published, the quality of those statements, and the extent to which they have been developed in collaboration with local parents and carers. Impact has also developed self-evaluation tools to help local authorities to monitor and improve their own performance in relation to short breaks services.

Education: Standards

Debbie Abrahams: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to reduce inequalities in educational attainment.

Sarah Teather: The Government is committed to creating a highly-educated society in which opportunity is more equal for children and young people no matter what their background or family circumstances. Our reforms include an emphasis on early intervention, additional funding to support the education of disadvantaged pupils, improving teacher quality, introducing challenging floor standards for secondary schools, allowing more schools to benefit from academy status and transparency measures to ensure schools support all pupils to progress. The Department for Education has published fairness objectives which include commitments to tackle inequalities in educational attainment which can be found on the web page at:
	http://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/policiesandprocedures/equalityanddiversity/b00202789/equality-commitments/equality-objectives-2012

History: Curriculum

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education 
	(1)  what progress has been made on the National Curriculum Review of history; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  when he expects to complete the process of reviewing the submissions to the National Curriculum Review of history;
	(3)  what timetable he has set for the National Curriculum Review for foundation subjects for secondary schools.

Nick Gibb: We are, in our review of the National Curriculum in England, taking careful account of all of the submissions received. We have recently confirmed that history is to continue as a compulsory subject at key stages 1 and 2. We will consult fully on draft Programmes of Study for primary history before they are finalised.
	We will also make a separate announcement in due course about plans for the secondary curriculum, including the place of history. Our intention is that the new Programmes of Study for all National Curriculum subjects will be introduced from September 2014.

Industry: Schools

Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what measures he has put in place to promote industry engagement with schools; and whether he has given consideration to establishing a clearing house role to help large companies engage with schools on a national basis.

Nick Gibb: holding answer 18 June 2012
	The core principle of our schools reform programme is to give greater freedoms to schools. This is because more autonomous schools are more likely to raise standards, ensuring that their curriculum meets the needs of their pupils, rather than covering in their curricula what successive Governments consider to be important.
	We have no plans to establish a clearing house to help large companies engage with schools on a national basis, although there are many organisations to which schools might look to fulfil this role where they want additional support in accessing industry, such as the Education and Employers' Taskforce.
	Schools provide enterprise and business education for young people to ensure that they are well equipped in facing the challenges of the world of work, employability and entrepreneurship, resulting in a positive outcome for both pupils and employers.
	We are investing £4.5 million over two years (2011-12 and 2012-13) for 25 FE colleges to trial innovative models for delivering work experience for 16 to 19-year-olds; and we will ensure that work experience is fully integrated in the 16 to 19 study programmes from September 2013.
	In addition, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is developing online resources for teachers that will enable them to set up school businesses and access support from local enterprise champions.

Pupils: Yorkshire and Humberside

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding was provided per pupil in state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in (A) York and (B) Yorkshire and the Humber in (1) 1992 and (2) each year since 1992 (x) in cash terms and (y) at 2012 prices.

Nick Gibb: As York only became a local authority in 1996-97 as a result of local government reorganisation, comparable funding data are available only from this date.
	Average per pupil revenue funding figures, from the Department to local authorities, for pupils aged three to 10 (primary) and 11 to 15 (secondary) for York LA specifically, and the Yorkshire and Humber region on average, for years 1997-98 to 2005-06 are as follows.
	These figures are in cash terms:
	
		
			 Average per pupil revenue funding (cash) 
			  1997-98 1998-99 1999- 20 00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 
			 York LA (primary) 1,866 2,002 2,184 2,397 2,574 2,702 2,893 3,064 3,337 
			 York LA (secondary) 2,608 2,751 2,909 3,242 3,423 3,575 3,699 3,970 4,227 
			 Yorkshire and Humber average (primary) 1,943 2,086 2,288 2,539 2,766 2,931 3,220 3,400 3,689 
			 Yorkshire and Humber average (secondary) 2,724 2,859 3,047 3,376 3,629 3,806 4,004 4,280 4,563 
			 Notes: 1. Price Base: Cash. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of standard spending assessment/education formula spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC. 3. Funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged three to 15 and exclude education maintenance allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. Where responsibility for funding a school has transferred from an authority, related funding no longer appears in the series. 5. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 6. Rounding: Per pupil figures are rounded to the nearest £1. 
		
	
	These figures are in real terms:
	
		
			 Average per pupil revenue funding (real) 
			  1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 
			 York LA (primary) 2,471 2,615 2,795 3,055 3,221 3,295 3,456 3,558 3,798 
			 York LA (secondary) 3,454 3,592 3,722 4,132 4,284 4,360 4,419 4,610 4,811 
			 Yorkshire and Humber average (primary) 2,573 2,724 2,928 3,236 3,462 3,574 3,846 3,948 4,198 
			 Yorkshire and Humber average (secondary)' 3,607 3,733 3,899 4,302 4,542 4,641 4,783 4,970 5,193 
			 Notes: 1. Price Base: Real terms at 2010-11 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 28 March 2012. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of standard spending assessment/education formula spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC. 3. Funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged three to 15 and exclude education maintenance allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. Where responsibility for funding a school has transferred from an authority, related funding no longer appears in the series. 5. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 6. Rounding: Per pupil figures are rounded to the nearest £1. 
		
	
	The total revenue per pupil figures shown in the following table are taken from the new Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). They are not comparable with those for the years 1997-98 to 2005-06 because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded.
	The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on education formula spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. The DSG is based largely on an authority's previous spending. In addition, the DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's Local Government Finance Settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department's time series as the two sets of data are not comparable. An alternative time series is currently under development.
	To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, the Department have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06; as described above this does not represent the totality of 'education' funding in that year.
	The total and per pupil revenue funding figures for years 2005-06 to 2010-11 for York are provided in the following table. The figures in the table are for all funded pupils aged three to 19 and are in cash terms:
	
		
			 Average revenue per pupil funding (DSG + grants cash) 
			  2005-06 baseline 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 
			 York LA 3,730 3,900 4,160 4,380 4,580 4,790 
			 Yorkshire and Humber (average) 3,920 4,160 4,440 4,640 4,820 5,040 
			 Notes: 1. This covers funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant, School Standards Grant, School Standards Grant (Personalisation) and Standards Fund as well as funding from the Learning and Skills Council; it excludes grants which are not allocated at LA level. 2. Price Base: Cash. 3. These figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 19. 4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10. 
		
	
	These figures are in real terms:
	
		
			 Average per pupil revenue funding (DSG + grants real) 
			  2005-06 baseline 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 
			 York LA 4,240 4,300 4,480 4,570 4,700 4,790 
			 Yorkshire and Humber (average) 4,460 4,580 4,780 4,850 4,950 5,040 
			 Notes: 1. This covers funding through the Dedicated Schools Grant, School Standards Grant, School Standards Grant (Personalisation) and Standards Fund as well as funding from the Learning and Skills Council; it excludes grants which are not allocated at LA level. 2. Price Base: Real terms at 2010-11 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 28 March 2012. 3. These figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 19. 4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10 
		
	
	Capital funding
	The following table shows capital funding for the financial years that are available. The data are in cash terms as allocations are phased across more than one year making real terms calculations meaningless. Complete information on the split of capital between phases of education is not held centrally.
	
		
			 £ million 
			  Capital allocations* PFI credits** 
			  York Yorkshire and the Humber York Yorkshire and the Humber 
			 1996-97 0.8 57.5 — — 
			 1997-98 1.3 52.1 — — 
			 1998-99 1.8 90.7 — 2.0 
			 1999-2000 4.5 151.3 — 62.8 
			 2000-01 7.4 243.3 — 86.0 
			 2001-02 4.8 245.2 — 45.2 
			 2002-03 9.2 310.5 — 1.1 
			 2003-04 11.1 305.4 — 188.9 
			 2004-05 11.4 326.6. 15.4 273.2 
			 2005-06 10.7 386.3 — — 
			 2006-07 23.0 281.9 — 255.4 
			 2007-08 19.3 380.3 — 179.2 
			 2008-09 26.7 371.5 — 4.5 
			 2009-10 23.1 510.5 — 423.8 
			 2010-11 18.4 701.4 — 348.7 
			 2011-12 8.0 437.6 — — 
			 2012-13 (provisional) 8.6 289.7 — — 
			 Notes: 1. Capital allocations includes capital grant and supported borrowing allocations. 2. PFI credit allocations are counted at financial close. 3. Figures are rounded to the nearest £100,000. 4. — indicates that no funding was given in that year.

Schools: Discipline

Andrea Leadsom: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department is taking to increase discipline in classrooms and control by teachers.

Nick Gibb: holding answer 19 June 2012
	Improving behaviour in our schools is a key priority for this Government. We have taken the steps outlined in the 2010 Schools White Paper to ensure teachers have the powers they need to maintain discipline in the classroom.
	These include: removing the requirement to give parents 24 hours' written notice of detentions outside school hours; strengthening teachers' powers to search pupils for items which disrupt teaching; and clarifying teachers powers to use reasonable force. We have also issued updated advice and guidance to schools on promoting good behaviour and maintaining discipline.
	Further reforms will take effect in the autumn. Teachers will be entitled to anonymity when accused by pupils until they are charged with an offence and a new system of independent review panels which will ensure that a school's decision to exclude is not undermined by an appeal process that can force the reinstatement of a permanently excluded pupil.

Special Educational Needs

Stephen McPartland: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking to provide comprehensive educational developmental programmes to pupils with physical and neurological disabilities.

Sarah Teather: Schools are responsible for identifying and meeting the educational needs of all their pupils, including those with physical and neurological disabilities. Since 2004, the Department has collected and published data on the numbers and attainment of pupils in England, broken down by pupil characteristics including ethnicity, eligibility for free school meals and different types of special educational needs (SEN). The data includes information on children whose primary need is a physical disability who are receiving support either through SEN statements or through School Action Plus, the higher of two school-based levels of SEN support.
	Our approach to improving services and outcomes for disabled children, including those with physical and neurological disabilities, is set out in the Green Paper, “Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability”.
	20 pathfinders, representing 31 local authorities and primary care trust partners, have been appointed to test the proposals in the Green Paper and will inform the changes we make to legislation through the Children and Families Bill. The pathfinders are focusing on involving parents more fully in decisions about the education, health and social care of their children, including trialling personal budgets for those who want them, and developing a clear offer of the support that is available locally. Pathfinders are testing a single assessment process and the use of an “Education, Health and Care Plan”, which brings together the support on which children, young people and their families rely.
	In addition, we have awarded a number of contracts to the voluntary and community sector in 2011-12 and 2012-13, many of which will support children with physical and neurological disabilities. These include grants over the two years of £502,466 to “Whizz Kidz”, for support to children with mobility-impairment, and £256,949 to SCOPE, to develop an online toolkit and guidance to help children with cerebral palsy and allied disabilities to access the curriculum.

Sustainable Development: Curriculum

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will place a duty on schools to promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally; and if he will make a statement.

Nick Gibb: holding answer 18 June 2012
	The Government is committed to sustainable development but does not think that placing duties on schools is the best way to secure it.
	Our reform programme is designed to improve standards by giving greater autonomy to schools. This is based on the principle that schools perform better when they take responsibility for their own improvement.
	Schools themselves are choosing to become more sustainable with the Sustainable Schools Alliance, a group of voluntary organisations, who are working together to provide a clear offer of support to all schools in the country.

Teachers: Training

Robert Buckland: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many graduates have entered teaching since 2007 in (a) South Swindon constituency and (b) England and Wales.

Nick Gibb: The information is not available for South Swindon constituency and is not available in the format requested for England and Wales.
	Provisional figures show that between March 2007 and March 2010, the latest date available, 131,700 teachers with qualified teacher status entered teaching service for the first time in the publicly funded sector in England and Wales. This figure is a slight underestimate because the data source undercounts part-time teachers by around 10 to 20%. All teachers who are awarded qualified teacher status are required to have a degree or equivalent level qualification. A small number of graduate teachers who entered service but have not attained qualified teacher status are excluded from the figure provided.
	The figure is provided from the Database of Teachers Records: an administrative data source primarily maintained for pensions administration purposes. The data source covers both England and Wales.
	Information on the number of entrants to initial teacher training in England in the academic years 2006/07 to 2011/12 has been published in Tables A1 and A2 of the School Workforce Statistical First Release, November 2010, which is available at the following web link:
	http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000997/index.shtml
	Information about the number of entrants to initial teacher training in Wales should be directed to the Welsh Government.

Young People: Drugs

Tracey Crouch: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the relationship between employment and education status and substance misuse among under 18 year olds.

Sarah Teather: The Government has supported a numbers of studies that look at the effects of substance misuse and the wellbeing of young people. The main one is the Youth Cohort Study and Longitudinal Study of Young People in England: The Activities and Experiences of 18 year olds: England 2009, which shows that 36% of those who had ever tried cannabis were in full-time education at age 18, compared with 49% of those who had not. Young people who had tried cannabis were more likely to be NEET than those who had not (19% who had tried cannabis compared with 14% who had not). In the previous year the study showed that young people who reported having tried cannabis by the time they were age 14 were twice as likely to be NEET at age 16 than those who had not.
	Other assessments the Department has made relating to substance misuse and education and employment include: the Newbury-Birch review, Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Young People (2008) which showed that alcohol consumption can have a detrimental effect on young people's short term educational performance; Barnes et al, Understanding Vulnerable Young People (2011) which found that 15% of young people who drank alcohol on most days or smoked at least six cigarettes per week and had tried cannabis were NEET at age 18; and Frontier Economics, A cost-benefit analysis of substance misuse services for under-18s (2011), which showed that the reduction in the percentage of NEET young people as a result of treatment results in long-term educational and employment benefits of between £5,000 and £10,000 per young person.

Adult Education

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of the adult further education budget was spent on (a) 19 to 21, (b) 22 to 24 and (c) over 24-year-olds in respect of (i) full-time and (ii) part-time courses.

John Hayes: Actual spend on adult (19+) further education and skills training is not reported at the individual level. However, it is possible to provide an estimate of funding at this level calculated from the Individualised Learner Record.
	Table 1 shows the proportion of estimated 19+ funding for further education and skills (excluding community learning) by age band and mode of attendance in the 2010/11 academic year, the latest full year for which final data are available.
	
		
			 Table 1: Further education and skills (excluding community learning) 
			 Percentage of estimated spend by age band and mode of attendance, 2010/11 
			 Age Full-time Part-time Total 
			 19 to 21 24 6 29 
			 22 to 24 7 5 13 
			 25+ 16 42 58 
			 19+ total 47 53 100 
			 Notes: 1. Funding calculations are based on data that include adults (aged 19+) participating in education and training, apprenticeship and workplace learning provision. Community learning provision has been excluded. 2. Education and training provision (previously learner responsive and university for industry provision) covers further education learning delivered mainly in a classroom, workshop or through distance or e-learning. 3. Figures for estimated spend come from the ILR. They should not be treated as actual spend as spending is not reported at this level (age and part-time/full time). These figures can only be used to give an indicative view on the proportion of public funding for each age group and by part-time/full-time). 4. For 'education and training' full-time learners are defined as those learners studying a programme of a minimum of 450 guided learning hours in an academic year. It is not possible to identify the mode of attendance for apprenticeships and workplace learning. For the purposes of this analysis all apprenticeships have been categorised as full-time and all workplace learning as part-time. Source: Individualised Learner Record (ILR).

Apprentices: Greater London

David Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of apprentices in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) the London borough of Bexley and (c) London who are employed in the retail sector.

John Hayes: Information on the number of apprentices employed in the retail sector is not available. Apprenticeship data is collected and reported by apprenticeship framework and sector subject area.
	Table 1 shows the number of apprenticeship programme starts in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) the London borough of Bexley and (c) the London region in the retail and commercial enterprise sector subject area for the 2010/11 academic year, the latest full year for which final data are available.
	
		
			 Table 1: Apprenticeship programme starts in the retail and commercial enterprise sector subject area by geography, 2010/11 
			  Retail and commercial enterprise apprenticeship starts 
			 Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency 180 
			 Bexley local authority 490 
			 London region 7,740 
		
	
	
		
			 England total 102,770 
			 Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Geography is based on the home postcode of the learner. Geographic information is based on boundaries of regions as of May 2010. The England total includes some unknown postcodes. Source: Individualised Learner Record 
		
	
	Information on the number of apprenticeship starts by sector subject area is published in a supplementary table to a quarterly Statistical First Release (SFR). The latest SFR was published on 29 March 2012:
	http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statistical firstrelease/sfr_current
	http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statistical firstrelease/sfr_supplementary_tables/Apprenticeship_sfr_supplementary _tables/

Apprentices: Insolvency

Lindsay Roy: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what measures his Department has put in place to support young people pursuing apprenticeships in the event that the company employing them becomes insolvent.

John Hayes: In the case of redundancy the National Apprenticeship Service will work with the training provider and apprentice to try and find an alternative employer that would be willing to help the Apprentice complete their Apprenticeship. In addition there are exceptional arrangements which may allow an Apprentice to complete an Apprenticeship where specified conditions are met and opportunities to gain the skills and knowledge are available without being in paid employment.

Copyright

Tristram Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2012, Official Report, column 516W, on copyright, whether he proposes to publish the Government's proposals for copyright reform before the summer.

Norman Lamb: The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, my right hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), announced on 11 June 2012, Official Report, column 74, that the Government would publish as soon as possible its decisions on the introduction of a scheme to allow extended collective licensing, one to allow the use of orphan works, and a back-stop power to allow the Government to require a collecting society to implement a statutory code of conduct should it fail to introduce or adhere to a suitable voluntary code. He intends to do so before recess.
	Other announcements on copyright reform may be made later this year.

Government Procurement Card

Rachel Reeves: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on which dates his Department has published Government procurement card spending over £500 since May 2010.

Norman Lamb: The Department (core BIS) has published Government Procurement Card spending over £500 as follows:
	Financial Year 2011/12:
	Due to the volume of transactions, data is drawn together on a quarterly basis.
	Quarter 1 (April to June) published on 13 October 2011.
	Quarter 2 (July to September) published on 10 November 2011.
	Quarter 3 (October to December) published on 9 March 2012.
	Quarter 4 (January to March) will be published by 2 July 2012.
	Financial Year 2010/11:
	The Department has not published data relating to 2010/11. This is in accordance with Cabinet Office guidelines.

Higher Education: Admissions

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the potential effect of further education loans on access to higher education for (a) women, (b) black minority ethnic students and (c) people from non-traditional groups.

John Hayes: Research commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on the introduction of 24+ advanced learning loans showed little evidence to suggest that these groups will be particularly disadvantaged by the introduction of loans. BIS and its partners will monitor take-up and evaluate impact carefully as 24+ advanced learning loans are introduced.

Insolvency Service

James Wharton: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what factors his Department will take into account when deciding on the future of local insolvency offices.

Norman Lamb: Any decision to close offices will be made with all relevant and current information to hand. Reference will also be made to the criteria previously used to assess offices for potential closure which were: the volume of projected face to face activity required, the reasonableness of alternate travel journeys to neighbouring offices and projected costs should locations be merged.
	All responses to the ongoing public consultations will be taken into account in reaching a decision on the current potential office closures and mergers, along with the existing evidence set out in the consultation documents and any new evidence or data that arises in response to the five questions posed in the consultations.

Insolvency Service: Stockton on Tees

James Wharton: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what consultation his Department undertook when considering co-locating the Stockton Insolvency Service office with another local government office in the same area.

Norman Lamb: The Insolvency Service has been in discussions with the estates office within the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) about potential alternate accommodation, within the BIS family, in the wider Teesside area.
	The Insolvency Service does not consider that finding alternate accommodation on the Government estate, in the wider Teesside area, would be overly difficult should a decision be made not to proceed with the proposed merger with its Newcastle office.

New Businesses: Bexley

David Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  how many businesses in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London borough of Bexley have signed up as mentors for the Mentor scheme since the inception of the scheme;
	(2)  how many businesses in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London borough of Bexley have benefited from the Mentor scheme since the inception of the scheme.

Mark Prisk: Get Mentoring is a SFEDI-led (Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative) project, supported by grant funding (from both BIS and the Government Equalities Office,) to recruit and train 15,000 volunteer business mentors from the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) community.
	Over 12,000 volunteers have now been recruited through this initiative and over 7,000 of them have completed training—around 16% of whom are based in London and the south-east. This estimate is only approximate and based on the location of the workshop they attended. We do not currently have the data to ascertain how many were recruited from Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and the London borough of Bexley specifically.
	Volunteer mentors recruited and trained through Get Mentoring are deployed via the mentoring organisations on
	http://www.mentorsme.co.uk/
	the national mentoring portal or mentor businesses within their own networks. We do not have data to say how many mentoring relationships have been developed and therefore how many businesses have benefitted as a result of the site. It is too early yet to provide robust data on the number of businesses being mentored by Get Mentoring volunteers.
	At the start of 2011 it is estimated that there were almost 1.5 million private sector SMEs in London and the south-east. Based on results from the Small Business Survey 2010 it is estimated that around 120,000 (8%) of these would have used a business mentor in the previous 12 months.

New Businesses: Offices

Chuka Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  how many businesses he expects to use premises made available under the Start Up Spaces scheme by the end of (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014;
	(2)  how many premises will be made available under the Start Up Spaces scheme by the end of (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014;
	(3)  what capacity is available to businesses under the Start Up Spaces scheme and what he expects this will be by the end of (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014;
	(4)  how many businesses are using premises made available under the Start Up Spaces scheme.

Mark Prisk: My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's initiative to encourage start-up businesses in the current economic climate by using the Government's stock of surplus unoccupied office space, is being led jointly by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and the Cabinet Office. BIS is responsible for the business start-up element of the scheme. The Cabinet Office, through the Government Property Unit (GPU), is leading work on the property aspect and has been working with Departments to identify viable space.
	GPU has identified a first batch of viable spaces and on 29 May 2012 Government began a process to find providers to manage the spaces and deliver business support to future occupants. Space is likely to become available to businesses in the late autumn, subject to the identification and appointment of suitable providers. This initiative is a novel and innovative venture by Government which we trust will prove successful, with further spaces added to the initiative as they are identified in subsequent waves.
	At this stage, it is not possible to predict how many premises will be made available under the scheme by the end of (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014. The Government's property portfolio is fluid and actively managed to maximise efficiency and deliver value for money for the taxpayer. Government continues to seek to dispose of its unoccupied space where it can, either through sale or the early surrender of leases. Where these options are not suitable, the Government property unit will work with Departments to identify suitable property for this initiative.

New Businesses: Young People

Chuka Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many Start Up loans he expects to be made by the end of (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.

Mark Prisk: Budget 2012 announced a programme of enterprise loans to help young people set up and grow their own businesses, with funding for a £10 million pilot programme in 2012/13.
	The total number of loans awarded will depend on the value of each loan. Rather than set an arbitrary value for every loan Government wants the lending decision and the value of loan to be based upon the business case developed by each applicant and approved by an independent and expert panel.
	As a guide we anticipate average loan value of about £2,500 across the loan book.
	A further £32.5 million has been made available for the funding and administration of loans in 2013/14 and £40 million in 2014/15, subject to the pilot demonstrating that there is demand from young people and capability within the support network to engage and support them. We will be looking to engage commercial partners to further build the lending pot.

New Businesses: Young People

Chuka Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what benchmarks have been set for the implementation and operation of Start Up loans.

Mark Prisk: The Government has not set an exhaustive list of requirements for the implementation and operation of Start Up loans as this is a pilot and the scheme itself is demand led and intended to meet the needs of each individual applicant
	However, we have determined that:
	all delivery partners for the pilot phase must be operational by end September 2012, to ensure that each has a minimum delivery period of six months;
	for every loan recipient, we expect a further three individuals to benefit from engagement in the scheme, for example, by receiving advice on how to start their business;
	loans should be awarded on the basis of the individual's business plan and be made by an independent panel appointed by the delivery partner;
	loans must not exceed a repayment period of more than five years;
	interest will charged at the rate of RPI +3%;
	delivery partners can grant a repayment holiday up to a maximum of 12 months; and
	the loan will be treated as a personal liability.
	These requirements may be adjusted in the light of the results of the pilot.

New Businesses: Young People

Chuka Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what criteria partner organisations will use in allocating Start Up loans.

Mark Prisk: The only criteria that will apply to young people seeking support to start a business is that they are aged 18 to 24 and seeking to start their business in England.
	All young people joining the scheme will receive support to build a viable business plan. The award of a loan will be subject to an assessment by the delivery partner of the viability of the applicant's business plan and the individual's financial standing.

Origin Marking: EU Action

Tristram Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  what (a) discussions and (b) meetings officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in other member states in the Council of the European Union regarding the European Commission Proposal on Regulation for the indication of the country of origin on certain products imported from third countries;
	(2)  what organisations he has met to discuss the European Commission Proposal on Regulation for the indication of the country of origin on certain products imported from third countries;
	(3)  what (a) discussions and (b) meetings officials in his Department have had with officials of the European Commission regarding the European Commission Proposal on Regulation for the indication of the country of origin on certain products imported from third countries;
	(4)  what his policy is on the European Commission Proposal on Regulation for the indication of the country of origin on certain products imported from third countries.

Norman Lamb: The coalition Government has strong reservations about the European Commission Proposal on Regulation for the indication of the country of origin on certain products imported from third countries. We are not satisfied of the need for such a mandatory system, its cost to business and Government and the absence of any objective criteria for determining product scope. The UK supports a voluntary labelling approach. We welcome the practice of many producers and retailers in providing a country of origin mark on their products.
	Such positive country of origin marking takes place because business believes it is the right thing to do for themselves and their customers. It does not involve a regulatory or cost burden imposed by Government.
	After a number of discussions in the Commercial Questions Council Working Group during 2011, especially during the first half of the year, the proposal was last discussed in January this year. As a result we currently await a discussion paper from the European Commission on the possibility of a voluntary origin marking regime.
	Coalition Ministers have had no meetings on this issue. Nor have BIS officials met recently with Commission officials outside of the Council Working Group discussions.

Railways: Radlett

Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 17 May 2012, Official Report, column 326W, on railways: Radlett, what the nature was of the correspondence received from Community Connect Ltd; and what response his Department gave to this correspondence.

Mark Prisk: In November 2011, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), received correspondence about the St Albans Strategic Railfreight Interchange from Community Connect Ltd, on behalf of their client Helioslough.
	Community Connect Ltd sent an executive summary and impact report to support a planning proposal for a Strategic Railfreight Interchange in Radlett. The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, responded stating that the Government believes that a key mechanism to unblocking growth is through strategic infrastructure developments. He confirmed that the Government ambition was to see growth taking place in line with local wishes and priorities wherever possible and that it would not be appropriate to accept a meeting on that occasion.

Research

Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 18 June 2012, Official Report, column 700W, on research, whether any assessment has been made of the benefits to the economy of his Department's research and development scoreboard.

David Willetts: No assessment has been made. The scoreboard is not thought to have had a direct impact on the economy. It would be difficult to identify investment decisions primarily made as a result of the scoreboard by the top 1,000 R&D performing UK companies, or to quantify the wider benefits of the scoreboard to the economy.

Royal Mail: Scotland

Ian Murray: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether he has had discussions with the Scottish Government on the future of the Royal Mail in the event of Scottish independence.

Norman Lamb: I have not had any discussions with the Scottish Government on the future of Royal Mail in the event of Scottish independence.
	The Government's position is clear: Scotland is stronger as part of the UK and the UK is stronger with Scotland in it. The Government is not making plans for independence as we are confident that people in Scotland will continue to support the United Kingdom in any referendum.

Sovereignty: Scotland

Margaret Curran: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what correspondence (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with the Scottish Government on the potential consequences of Scotland leaving the UK; and if he will place in the Library a copy of any such correspondence.

Norman Lamb: There has been no correspondence between Ministers or officials in this Department and the Scottish Government on the consequences of Scotland leaving the UK.
	The Government's position is clear: Scotland is stronger as part of the UK and the UK is stronger with Scotland in it.
	The Government is not making plans for independence as we are confident that people in Scotland will continue to support the United Kingdom in any referendum.

Sovereignty: Scotland

Margaret Curran: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with Scottish Government Ministers or officials on the potential consequences of Scotland leaving the UK.

Norman Lamb: BIS have had no formal discussions with the Scottish Government.
	The Government's position is clear: Scotland is stronger as part of the UK and the UK is stronger with Scotland in it.
	The Government is not making plans for independence as we are confident that people in Scotland will continue to support the United Kingdom in any referendum.

Students: Finance

Steve Brine: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent representations he has received on the eligibility of students undertaking courses at private institutions for student support.

David Willetts: The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) regularly receives correspondence relating to personal and course eligibility. We do not keep a central register.
	In order to access student support a student must satisfy the personal eligibility criteria and be undertaking or attending a designated course in accordance with the relevant Education Student Support Regulations.
	Eligible higher education courses provided by publicly funded institutions in the UK are automatically designated under the Education (Student Support) Regulations.
	Eligible higher education courses provided by alternative or private providers are designated for the purposes of student support on a course by course basis by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable).